Problems running ImageMagick from PHP

[nicke]

hi! i've got some some problems running convert from inside a php script.

exec ("/execbin/convert -font 'arial' -fill white -draw 'text 25,25 www.test.nu' $filename $filename");

why doesn't this work?? permissions are not the issue here.

[Anon]

try the ``system'' function
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system("convert -font 'arial' -fill white -draw 'text 25,25 www.test.nu' $filename $filename",$failure);
if ($failure){
echo "couldn't convert the image";
}else{
echo 'SUCCESS';
}
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if this doesnt work, see if convert is executable, and if your server has permission to run it.
Also try to run it from command line to see if it works.

[nicke]

doesn't work. permissions is not the issue here. have tried to run the convert utility manually from the command line, and it works!

[Anon]

Does your $filename variable pass the complete path to the image?

[nicke]

yes it does!